This week’s roundup is dominated by Heartbleed – a significant SSL encryption vulnerability. Heartbleed has been taking the Internet by storm and affects both PC and mobile users. The problem exacerbates as even when fixes are available for mobile users, the patching process is long and not under the control of admins or end-users.

Check Point Malware Research Group, 04/02/2014 Summary Through leveraging Check Point’s ThreatCloud security intelligence, in recent weeks, our vulnerability research team has detected a spike in ZeroAccess botnet activity. This is surprising given that this…

Summary On October 22, 2013, Check Point’s ThreatCloud Threat Emulation service analyzed suspicious documents sent by email to end users at a media company. Analysis of the malware, which was intercepted through a Message Transport…

This week’s summary is a mix of both positive and negative signs surround the mobile security world. On one hand, we’re finally witnessing both relevant punishments for security lapses as well as service providers trying to take responsibility for their users’ security. On the other hand, major players that are widely presumed to be safest mobile options, are still letting users down.

Last week, the first exploit for the HTC One M7 and the brand new HTC One M8 - two of the most popular available smartphones today - was published. The significance? The vulnerability behind this exploit means that any app, regardless of its permission set, can run the exploitable code in order to gain root access (i.e. remove all of Android’s built-in security mechanisms).

This week’s summary highlights just how varied and dynamic mobile security is becoming. New motives for using malware in are appearing and demand attention. Additionally, it’s becoming apparent that the borders between private and work-related use of a mobile device are disappearing.

This week’s summary touches on several major security headlines that broke this week. We continue to witness security lapses both by major app developers and by the architects of the operating systems themselves – Google, Apple and now Microsoft.